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The Problem of Snowshoe Spam

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Spamhaus, a major DNS-based Blacklist (DNSBL) provider, published, earlier this month, an article outlining the problem of snowshoe spam.

Snowshoe spam appears to be a novel tactic used by spammers to avoid detection by traditional means. In detail, unsolicited e-mail messages are sent not massively from botnets or other compromised IP address ranges but in modest volumes from unallocated addresses. (more…)